The Great Dying was as nasty as it sounds. Some 250 million years ago, around 95 percent of ocean species vanished during the planet's largest-known extinction event, also called the Great Permian Extinction. The culprit is suspected to be extreme...

Reports last week of a new paper from researchers at Yale and Harvard proposing “sun-dimming” to mitigate climate change sure sounded alarming. Trouble is, those reports misconstrued the cited research, which made no suggestion that we actually engage in so-called solar...

Extreme heatwaves will scorch the UK as rising sea levels swallow large expanses of the coastline within just a few decades, experts have warned. In the first major analysis of the nation’s changing climate for nearly a decade, government and Met Office scientists concluded...

The Camp Fire has killed 81 people, burned more than 153,000 acres, destroyed at least 13,000 homes and blanketed millions of San Francisco Bay Area residents in unhealthy air. Smoke from the disaster -- bad enough to shut schools and trigger warnings to stay...